Explore the Stranded Ship
In Klamath, talk to Meloy, the trapper in Trapper Town. He will ask you to explore a mysterious ship and to return him some documents. This quest is known as The Stranded Rust. Go explore the ship, which is located on the coast, west of Klamath in zone 2:4, accomplish your task and return to Meloy to get your reward.
CAUTION: It is strongly advised to take this quest in RT mode.
NOTE: A boss robot was added to this quest and some loot was changed to random with bonuses, so not all of the following info is totally accurate. Explore it and see!
Walk-Through Spoiler, by Franklin
Once you accept the quest, the location of the ship is visible on world map, it is located on the western shore from Klamath. Enter the ship and prepare yourself to fight several rats, there are many locked doors and also many unlocked. Lock-pick all the doors on the first floor,collect stuff and go upstairs. When you are there lock-pick every door that can be lock-picked, and loot key from skeleton in bathroom. The room with stairs blocked by box is probably of no use. Loot everything from this floor (there are the documents you need for completing the quest, 7000 caps and some other stuff). Return to the first floor and look for ladder in the same room with the stairs and use it to go the lower floor. There are some rooms blocked either by boxes or gas. Well don't worry, you get past that. Open doors with key and kill some floaters and centaurs, and don't forget to loot oil can from lockers inside walls. Once you have it return to the first floor and go the room with many computers and collapsed floor. Use rope on the collapsed floor, that will attach the rope to the hole so can use it to go to the basement. There is a big machine, repair it using Machine Parts you found earlier in the first floor (the room with the second robot) and use oil can on the big red valve. After the repair use the valve and leave for the first floor. In the room with the computers use the other valve, which together with the precious valve and the repaired machine will stop the leaking of the gas in the lowest floor. Well go to the lowest floor using the ladder, and go the room which was previously inaccessible because of the gas. There are crates in various stacks on the floor, open all of them using lock-pick and enjoy the loot ( Combat armor, Metal armor mk2, Sniper Rifle, Combat Shotgun, Bio Med Gel, Rad Away, Rad X )
| Strategy Tip #1 |
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| The robots remain stationary for a few moments before they detect your presence, so you can use this to your advantage. To get the jump on the robots, do not approach their rooms until you're ready to rush in and attack. So for example, don't go to the door and stand there and talk about attacking them. Have your talk before you approach the door. Then run to the door, open it, rush in and hit the robot asap. Alternately, you can use the computer in the top room to disable the robots if you have sufficient Science skill. |
| Strategy Tip #2 |
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| Most players go on this quest to get a little monetary boost when caps are so short. You can bypass the most dangerous parts of this quest and do the fast version, and just get the caps without exploring the bottom level. This takes far less time and you only have to kill one of the robots and some rats. |
| Whats in the Boxes? |
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| Each of these crates are protected by a lock. There is a 15 second cooldown before you can use lockpick again so make sure that you have enough time to open as many as you are planning to. All this item are brand new (100%/100%). 1. Combat Armor |
Requirements
- You can get this quest solo, without a party.
- The quest leader needs to be at least level 18.
- Someone in the quest party needs high Repair Skill >100% to fix the machine and stop the steam leak.
- Someone in the quest party needs high Lockpick Skill to open containers.
Rewards
| Spoiler | Items in Containers | Images | |
| Count | Item Name | Image | Description |
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| 1 | The quest item, a metal case |  |
Something flapping inside. |
| 1 | Cheezy Poofs |  |
A collectors item, found in a locker on the main level. |
| 2 | Television Dinners |  |
A collectors item, found in a locker on the main level. |
| 1 | Part of a Rope |  |
A collectors item, found in a crate on the main level. |
| 1 | Machine Parts |  |
A collectors item, found on the floor in a guarded room on the main level. Needed to fix the machine on the lower level. |
| 2 | Rope |  |
Found in the same room as the machine parts. Use one on the hole in the floor to climb down to fix the machine on the lower level. |
| 1 | Pass key (Red) |  |
Opens only one door, to a room with a robot guard. |
| 1 | Special key 1449 |  |
Found on the main level in the room with two lockers. This main key opens several doors in central hallways on multiple floors. |
| 1 | Special key 12125 | |
Found in some bones on the upper level. Opens the door to the room with the quest item, the metal case. |
| 1 | Diamond Necklace |  |
A collector's item, found in the same wall safe with the caps. |
| 7000 | caps |  |
Found in the main wall safe on the upper level. |
| 1 | Gold Watch | File:Goldwatc.gif | A collector's item, found in one of the lockers on the main level. |
| 4 | Radiation Meds |   |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 1 | Combat Armor |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 1 | Combat Shotgun |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 1 | Combat Leather Jacket |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 4 | Rockets |   |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 1 | Metal Armor Mark II |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 1 | Sniper Rifle |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 6 | Bio Med Gel |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. Used in crafting some drugs. |
| 1 | Super Sledge |  |
Found in one of the crates in the last room beyond the steam. |
| 1 | Super Tool Kit |  |
A high-quality Repair item, found in a wall safe on the lower level. |
| 1 | Wrench |  |
A useful Repair item |
| 1 | Club |  |
Self-explanatory |
| 3 | Oil Cans |  |
Valuable items when repairing rare things like PA. Found in a wall safe on the lower level. |
| 1 | Pocket Lint |  |
A collectors item, found in a wall safe on the lower level. |
| 1 | Beautiful Flower |  |
A collectors item, found in a bookshelf in the main room with the quest item. |
Notes
Due to Player economy it might be more beneficial to simply leave the quest unfinished and save the loot up to the oil cans. As currently oil cans are valued at 20,000 caps each by players.